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FURY


A dark, claustrophobic and foreboding depiction of how the "greatest generation"
not only fought against the evil of Nazism, but also the monster within themselves.


8/10
 

Fury

I saw this in Gold Class. The cinemas with the oversize comfy reclining seats and expensive treats. My mate who was paying for the whole shebang (because I'm broke Llama ok) decided to get a frozen coke at the beginning of the film, then one halfway through. The one he ordered for the start came halfway through and the one supposed to be in the middle came near the end. So the credits are rolling and there's my mate with one and a half frozen cokes. Jumbo size too. You Blert.

Anyway the movie comes on and its WWII and roll out the cliches / shooting / attitude / sticky situations / unrealistic battles / war torn humour / innocent deaths / comeuppance / hair do's /shenanigans / nazis

Some of you who haven't experienced WWII movies might think it's the greatest war film ever made but it's just not. It's okay. That silly scene in the middle with the eggs just ruffled my feathers. I got it, but at the same time it didn't get it. What was the point? Brad Pitt is your superior and you just decide to..

The main problem i have with period films I'm slowly realising is the actors/script often portray modern characteristics and it throws the suspension of disbelief under a tank. They didn't say things like that back then obviously.

Brad was okay. Just phoning it in nowadays. Young Crazy guy from Transformers was the best thing in it by far. Mustachioed, edgy, some of the reports from the set have him down as a complete nutter, but I guess that makes a top actor and he nails it. The rest - meh. Cutouts.

2.5 stars from me.
 
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McBain said:
Fury

....Young Crazy guy from Transformers was the best thing in it by far. Mustachioed, edgy, some of the reports from the set have him down as a complete nutter, but I guess that makes a top actor and he nails it...
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Apparently he pulled out a tooth and didn't wash/shower for a week, so he could learn from the experience and put it into the role.

The film is flawed, which is a shame but there was the basis there for something very good but they went down the 'all-American gun-toting hero has come to save the world' route instead. So many things didn't ring true. And why, when the final battle commences is it broad daylight but a minute later it is pitch black? Presumably to give more dramatic effect to the flames, explosions and whizzing machine gun bullets. I thought I was watching a Star Wars movie at that point.
 

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